Old Zeiss hassy lenses will not mount on Hasselblad H3D II

[chunkygrooves]

Hey Folks,

I shoot for Gulf News in the UAE and recently got hold of some older Hasselblad lenses, a zeiss 50 F4 distagon, a zeiss 180 f4 sonnar and a zeiss 250 f 5.6 sonnar. I have been using them with a hasselblad to canon adaptor on my canon 5d MkII, everything works fine.

A friend has a Hasselblad H3D II - I can not get the lenses to mount on his camera, did the lens mount change between new and old hasselblad cameras? visually the mount looks like it should work.

Yes , the lenses are cocked, but they just will not mount on the newer camera.

does anyone have any help for this issue??

thanks very much

Ollie

 

[Ed Bray]

The lenses have different mounts and will not directly fit onto each other mounts camera bodies, although Hasselblad do make a CF adapter which will allow the use of Hasselblad V system lenses on H system bodies with some limitations.

 

[chunkygrooves]

thanks

thank you very much